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As I'm unable to carry on working in my man cave due to commitments with DIY (oh god please send Nick knowles and the boys round)

I'm going to shamelessly copy and paste another WIP that I did on another forum a little while ago over to here.

It's not very long but I had a load of fun building it and Everybody likes Wallace and Gromit (don't they ?) and if you dont or you've already seen this then you can always ignore it, I won't be offended and heck it's the Internet so it's not as if its real life is it lol !

As I'm copying and paring the text, some of it will make no sense ( for example Fluffy) but it's the easiest way for me to get it posted without having to type it all out again

I'll try and get it all up tonight, but if it goes quiet it's probably just down to the fact I have bored myself to sleep lol, so please bare with me

Pete

Right then,

my ju-88 group build kit is in stasis for a little while until I can scrape a few quid together to get the paints I need (paint is cheap but postage is a mare lol)

I don't really want to be starting another kit as I have half a dozen ongoing projects that need finishing and in the back of my mind that bugs me lol.

But I need to build something or I will just be bouncing off the walls, finances at the moment mean that I'm unable to carry on with the work that needs doing in the house and poor weather here again means I can't get anything done outside, my daughter Rebecca asked me to build this and to be honest this kind of kit will be just what I need right now as its nice and simple not too many parts (so a good chance it will get finished)

and as I don't have to worry too much about accuracy I can let the old artistic side loose !

Also the last time I made a kit like this I was smiling the whole way through, and that can't be a bad thing either.

So lardies and gentlworms I present to you

Wallace and Grommit in The Curse of the Were Rabbit

17121931898_b34336e028_k.jpg20150429_100015 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

The kit is a kind of starter kit and is clearly aimed at kids (that's me sorted then) as it's very robust and has obviously been designed with playability in mind (expect plenty of vrooming through the build)

And it comes with a brush, a tube of sticky and a lot of little plastic pots of acrylic paint

17309704545_bbaa451939_k.jpg20150429_100704 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

I have had some experience with these paints in the dim and distant past as it was a couple of Airfix starter kits that got me back into the hobby a few years ago.

My memory of these paints is that they were pants (and socks) so they will probably stay where they are, but you never know they might come in handy as colour reference if they don't work out

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What follows is the obligatory sprue shots, I am known for my marathon length, soul sapping build threads and as this is a simple kit I need to pad things out to keep the page count up lol !

Also I thought you might want to see what you get in the box

Here's the main body, it's a fair size and is also the plastic is really thick it feels very strong and not at all like a plastic model kit.

17309246461_c723c6b234_k.jpg20150429_101222 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

I think the intention of the kit designers was for you to leave the body in its moulded colour and not to paint it (again catering to the younger modeller) but I will be painting mine.

There is a moulded in "rust" effect all over the body and it looks a little bit heavy to my eyes so I will probably adress that as the build moves along, but we will see what occurs

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Here's the chassis and its ejector pin city all over the place

17307860622_429804ecee_k.jpg20150429_101237 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

Seats, dash and 5 wheels, so I guess there will be a spare wheel stored in the back of the van

17123478039_b95fb41100_k.jpg20150429_101435 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

Five soft vinyl tyres and metal axles (I can't wait for the vroom moment on this one)

17102263367_b87c59d9fb_k.jpg20150429_101047 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

A chrome sprue,

This will be getting the bleach strip treatment, it's a shame really as the finish is really quite nice, but its a little too bright and I will never be able to match the finish where they get removed from the sprue, so it will be Alclad for these

17309704225_18635b2501_k.jpg20150429_100933 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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Plenty of clear parts too

16687249254_fbcb2c4284_k.jpg20150429_101014 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

And the stars of the movie,

These are moulded in the same unsandable soft vinyl that the other Wallace and Grommit figures were, so I'll be looking forward to seam removal (not)

17122153590_3082134635_k.jpg20150429_101041 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

The crews bodies along with a little rabbit, these are vinyl too but not as soft as the heads

17283749356_4ad7837950_k.jpg20150429_101511 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

Another sprue (I can't think of anything humerous to say about this one)

A nice little touch is that it comes with parts so you can build it with a little mechanical hand that pops out of the front grill and grabs the starter handle

22715839992_9f4910cb48_b.jpg20150430_120403 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

Don't worry, this is the last sprue

Doors, bulkhead and some other bits that I have no idea of where they go

16689447683_9d9f801e33_k.jpg20150429_101622 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

An uninspiring black and white instruction booklet, the Shaun the sheep ones were in full colour with photos of the filming props.

But it's clear enough although the colour call outs are numbers ie 21 and not black or whatever

22541489960_eca9ec9f30_b.jpg20150429_101727 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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And finally a nice little decal sheet, I love the "eat more cheese" bumper sticker

17283748486_7d4c8c1067_k.jpg20150429_101709 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

So there we have it, looks like it should be a whole heap of fun to build.

I have made a start on this and will update in a little while, my hands are aching from the typing lol ! And I am going to make myself a nice cup of coffee

Pete

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Okey dokey build time,

Fluffy is a big Wallace and Grommit fan so he was well up,for this one

Look, he even put his happy hat on for the occasion

16690551934_a678d40420_k.jpg20150429_155036 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

I started with the wheels,

I don't usually leave parts on the sprue when I paint them but as fluffy pointed out the attachment points would end up inside the tyres and the parts didn't need any clean up, so it would be easier this way that mounting them all individually on skewers

17311172172_51db2a11f4_k.jpg20150429_153300 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

The wheels need to be white and the hub caps will be chrome, so I gave them a prime with the old Halfords White primer, this is quite coarse but it covers well and It needs to, to cover the green plastic that this is moulded in

17125224858_1d1a17ba8f_k.jpg20150429_155126 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

Here's the result after a quick blast

17313006295_6a57808373_k.jpg20150429_154225 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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It looks ok in the pic above, but if you look at this close up picture you should be able to see that the primer didn't fully cover in the recesses of the wheel.

If I had tried to get full coverage (even with 2 or 3 light passes) I would have ended up with a really thick coat that obliterated the detail

16691381264_34c844da19_k.jpg20150429_175201 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

So after the primer had dried (not long as it was a light coat) I loaded the airbrush up with some Tamiya gloss white and sprayed into the recesses where the primer had missed and all over the wheel.

The finish is more of a satin than a gloss finish and is the perfect finish for the wheels, these will be getting weathered too as pics of the filming miniature show it was modelled to be pretty beaten up

16693573623_5148081f12_k.jpg20150429_175154 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

Fluffy was feeling a little peckish so I made seat kebabs

17125458850_04ba5dbd39_k.jpg20150429_155112 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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The seats got a blast of Halfords finest too

17313388781_6ce8f7e1f3_k.jpg20150429_180450 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

It was at this point Trevor my fume fuelled Unicorn appeared and it all kicked off (fluffy and Trevor don't really get along) there was bone, horn, Bits of Easter hat and glittery poop all over the place !

And this was the reason for Trevors unannounced visit

17125458510_f38bf6eed6_k.jpg20150429_155335 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

The last time I had changed the filter in my booth Fred Flintsone was still at school ! And I had been breathing in the fumes (I know better and should be wearing my respirator anyway)

So a quick swap and Trevor was on his hooves and back to spangly sparkly rainbow land

17312560701_db9cbcef82_k.jpg20150429_155432 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

So with a bit of oxygen in the Pete cave and the figment of my imagination out of the way, I got to painting the seats.

I wanted to try and get a kind of period vinyl look to the seats and though that a reddish (that's reddish and not radish) brown might work,

So I chose these colours

17311995462_1534bdba36_k.jpg20150429_185045 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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I mixed in the airbrush cup and started with red and just added the other colours test spraying on a bit of paper until I got a shade I was happy with

17311997042_8c84a8f114_k.jpg20150429_183542 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

Fluffy liked the colour but thought they were a bit plain, so I used a black artists pencil to line the edges and in the ribs of the cushions

17311996652_2d98600c90_b.jpg20150429_184503 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

A light spray of satin varnish finished them off nicely

17106395247_10e12caaea_b.jpg20150429_184926 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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I quite like how they turned out, he's a clever disembodied chap is our Fluffy

17287876436_7a58dedfa1_b.jpg20150429_184535 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

The pencil worked a treat, I just need to paint the seat frames

17126283590_13cdc4720e_b.jpg20150429_184540 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

I wanted to assemble the figures next as I knew from building the other kits that cleaning the vinyl was a pain, so better to get it out of the way early.

I think I have the special edition of this kit , with bonus bad "fittingness"

17125457690_2b9fabe37f_b.jpg20150429_162806 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

It looked like this bit might be hampering the fit

17313004115_b6d4f4a5aa_b.jpg20150429_162855 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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So out with the clippers,

But Wallace started screaming "don't cut me Pete, please don't " It was breaking my heart to see the fear in his eyes

17287053696_7aa10c8fbc_b.jpg20150429_163010 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

So out with the blind fold

17125223138_1decb81c58_b.jpg20150429_163227 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

The screaming started but the act was done

17313003495_5ee81aae8d_b.jpg20150429_163316 by

peter hutchings, on Flickr

But it was all for nothing as it still didn't fit !

17126784189_b94591db3b_b.jpg20150429_164422 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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More drastic action was required,

So with Wallace begging for his life it was back out with the blindfold and the surgery began

17125455810_d027da9cdc_b.jpg20150429_164535 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

The procedure went like clockwork !

17125221918_fbde71a6b9_b.jpg20150429_164753 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

The giblet from his neck got glued back in

17105567237_6d6683ee6b_b.jpg20150429_164943 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

And everything fitted much better

17126783109_9a1bd497cf_b.jpg20150429_165005 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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His head can be glued to the giblet now

17105566447_4f701efd4e_b.jpg20150429_165022 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

A nice side effect is that now Wallace can see where he's been

17313001405_f9b8d4f076_b.jpg20150429_165047 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

Another added bonus of all this butchery is that I will be able to paint the head seperate from the body now.

This gave me an idea, the instructions show the hand to be trapped between the 2 halves of the body

16690546624_4ee19445e2_b.jpg20150429_165311 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

But a simple amputation in a similar vein as the head (see what I did there lol) means I can keep the hands seperate For painting too

17125220088_cf4d1eb72d_b.jpg20150429_165327 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

"Doctor I can't feel my legs"

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"Of course you can't sir, I've cut your bleedin hands off"

17125219878_259793d4c8_b.jpg20150429_165443 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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Apologies for the rudeness but reading through this thread is it safe to presume you are a little bit nuts? (in a good way).

No need to apologise, you're not the first to presume this. But happily I'm only a danger to myself and no skulls or Unicorns were harmed in the making of this kit (well not too badly)

Pete

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Issue a threadwide warning about timely filter changing someone.

Mind you, that Fluffy does seem to know what he's talking about.

Yes most important to keep the air quality in our mancaves at a safe level, lest we all be plagued by hallucinations of Demonic entities.

Yes Fluffys pretty knowledgable regarding models and not only is he company for me down in the Petecave, he makes an excellent hat and spectacles stand too

Pete

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Fixing the stub in Here will give me an attachment point to add the super glue

ixing the stub in Here will give me an attachment point to add the super glue

17126781059_8b3175c8bc_b.jpg20150429_165757 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

Now onto the seams on the vinyl, they aren't that bad but leaving them will spoil the look as when finished they need to like they are made from modelling clay, I used a scalpel to trim the seams on the last ones, but there is a risk of gouging the part and also the Doctors at the facility take a dim view of me using sharp objects

17287050086_57cb9e5cae_b.jpg20150429_170847 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

So this time I decided to try a few different sanding sticks to see if any would work, the standard micro mesh ones I have just made the vinyl go furry !

But this one (it's mylar I think) did the trick

17105564307_181d2955ed_b.jpg20150429_170854 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

None too shabby methinks

16692741753_cb506a0512_b.jpg20150429_171318 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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The seam on Wallaces Gregory before Mylar (Gregory Peck is Neck in rhyming slang for those of you who are not UK based)

17287049436_44eaf854e6_b.jpg20150429_171328 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

And after a few swipes it's all looking rather Jamjullah

17105563267_14c196a4b5_b.jpg20150429_172110 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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Righty ho then, time for today's madness.

I didn't get as much done in this as I had planned but I have done a little bit so I might as well post it up.

I started with the "auto crank mechanism" I invented something similar in my young free and single days but I called it a "hand shandymatic" but i think that's best left for some of the "other" solo hobby forums on the darker side of the web

Shown here in the destructions thusly

17133686198_f0211c31e7_b.jpg20150430_120403 by peter hutchings, on

All the parts chopped off the sprues ready for clean up.

The instructions tell you glue the "glove" halves around the end of the crank, I didn't want to do it this way as it would make painting everything a lot more difficult than it needs to be, and as I was planning to use Alclad I wanted to avoid tape on the painted parts.

So I was banking on the vinyl being flexible enough that after gluing and painting I could just squeeze it in (we'll see how that worked out further on

22740613601_530d586d66_b.jpg20150430_120356 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

After seam cleaning (what a pain in the bunghole that was) I sprayed the parts with zero rubber black laquer, it goes on nice and smooth and dries instantly so it makes a great base for,the Alclad

22106658324_fe1a392e87_b.jpg20150430_130254 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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I gave them a quick blast of Alclad aluminium, waited for Trevor the fume induced Unicorn , and when he appeared we took the opportunity to nip outside in between the rain showers and took this pic

The parts just push together without glue and can move, hence everything looking a bit wonky donky in the pic

22715875172_d97ec88f93_b.jpg20150430_131715 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

Back in the Petecave and Trevor thought it would look cool if I sprayed a bit of pale burnt metal over the shafts (I think he just wants me to breathe in the Allcad in the hope that a "Mrs Unicorn will appear)

17321476295_b6cfd7bdd3_b.jpg20150430_131402 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

So with that duly done and dusted, my glittery poop laying horned equine friend, then advised that a nice sepia wash added carefully around the joints would look bang tidy, or "simply spiffing" if you are speaking the queens.

17321053881_b3716eb96e_b.jpg20150430_140158 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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The gloved hand got a coat of matt White (I must say I was impressed at how well the seam turned out after sanding with the Mylar stick again)

17295505366_1f0cb3fe69_b.jpg20150430_140331 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

WARNING ! The mediocrity of the following pictures may cause drowsiness

The brackets on the end of the glove got a lick of black paint

17114494437_c3901a5aed_b.jpg20150430_144203 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

Then a coat of Vallejo modelair silver applied with a brush (of the hairy and not airy variety

17295966116_254724831b_b.jpg20150430_144813 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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Now after lulling you into a false sense of security with the above post, it's time to raise your blood pressure with the killer blow !

Did my hunch pay off ? Would the gloved hand bend over the end of the shaft ? Would the sky turn black and Fire and brimstone fall from the heavens ?

DA

DA

DAAAAAAAAAAAA

17321518131_d6befd2215_b.jpg20150430_145548 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

Yeah it went on fine lol, it scraped a little of the silver paint off, but that was pretty much the sum total of the drama

17321937235_602a09ee2c_b.jpg20150430_145609 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

After a lay down in a darkened room with a couple of slices of cucumber over my eyes to recover from the excitement, I added a little bit of sepia wash to the bracket to help blend it to the other parts

17114492657_a5bd8565ef_b.jpg20150430_150044 by peter hutchings, on Flickr

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